Doris Matsui

Doris Matsui (2009)

Doris Okada Matsui (born September 25, 1944 in Yuma County , Arizona ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives since 2005 .

Career

Doris Matsui was born in a detention center for Japanese Americans in what is now La Paz County . She grew up in Dinuba, California and later studied psychology at the University of California at Berkeley . She married the future Congressman Bob Matsui , with whom she had a son. Until her husband was elected to the US House of Representatives, she was a housewife and mother in California. After her husband was elected to Congress in 1979 , she moved with him to the federal capital Washington, DC , where she in turn began her own political career as a member of the Democratic Party . She campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential election and became a member of the staff of the White House between 1993 and 1998 after his election victory. Then she worked as a lobbyist in the federal capital.

After the death of her husband, Doris Matsui was elected in the due by-election for the fifth seat of California as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where she took up her new mandate on March 8, 2005. After seven re-elections between 2006 and 2018 inclusive, she can continue to hold office today. Her new legislative term runs until January 3, 2021 with the option to run again in 2020. Matsui represented the 5th Congressional electoral district of California until 2013, and has been a member of the 6th Congressional electoral district since then. She is or was a member of the Committee for Energy and Trade and two sub-committees. She was also a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus .

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• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

Commons : Doris Matsui  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Doris Matsui  - Sources and full texts (English)

• Web presence at the congress
• Doris Matsui in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)